Word: shimmering
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...Allard started off the Crimson fifth with a round-tripper, giving Harvard an ephermeral 7-6 advantage. Ephermeral means it didn't last long, and after nothing more than a tantalizing shimmer, the lead was gone, victim of one Umass run in both the fifth and the sixth...
Since that is so, it ought to follow that the world's big spenders would constantly be shrinking from the public's stony stare, like devils in the sunshine. That they do not shrink, that instead they swell and shimmer, may be yet another sign of our essential depravity. For all its sermons to the contrary, the world loves a big spender. We cannot help ourselves. We may be stripped of all our possessions, out in the cold, down to our last charge plate (not one from Saks), and standing last in a breadline that accepts only cash...
...tiny volume by Hoover, called Fishing for Fun. Perhaps President Carter has also discovered the book, because he has recently become an avid fisherman. Hoover wrote: 'Fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on the blue water.' It sounds so quieting and gratifying that I may take it up myself...
...most important of the Soviet Union's three surviving Russian Orthodox seminaries. The 78 graduates, clad in black tunics and trousers, take their places in the cathedral before the ornate screen, hung with treasured icons, that separates the sanctuary from the congregation. Hundreds of candles shimmer against the gold and silver on the walls, and the smell of hot wax mingles with that of flowers...
When Vienna was good it glittered, and when it turned bad it phosphoresced. This shimmer of decay, 80 years later, still lights up the contemporary terrain so pervasively that the city seems less a historical place than a state of mind. Psychoanalysis was born there, as well as atonal music, several schools of urban planning and modern Zionism. Vienna also spawned the brand of hooligan anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place...